YJ has new LED brakelights mounted on the saddle bags. They are a set of sticky back chrome ringed rectanular LED lights that I jot from J&P Cycles. While I am a bit disappointed in the overall quality for almost $40.00, they work quite well. I think I would have been a bit more happy if they were around $20.00, but its hard to tell when you are buying things over the internet.
Anyway, I pulled the tail light harness out and with help from the wiring diagram from Lucky's CD (thanks Pete - you saved me again!), I spliced into the brake light line (yellow) and the ground (black) and determined that they worked as expected. Not the brightest during the day but good enough.
I had asked opinions in another post about drilling my bags vs doing a spacer to route the wires but in the end decided to drill. I ended up using the special bit that came with my Gustaffesen windscreen and it drilled two perfect holes. (in retrospect, I think I shold have taken pictures of the whole project but I was trying to beat a thunderstorm - and lost). I used a level to center them up and make sure they were level and ran the wires through the holes and clipped them to the wiring harness. Finished it off with some splitloom wire cover and battened everything down.
Heres some pics of the finished work:
Brake Lights off (Ignition was off so my tail light is off too)
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l299/xz550rj/DSCF0062.jpg)
Brake Lights on:
(http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l299/xz550rj/DSCF0063.jpg)
The backlighting from the outside makes everything in the pictures appear a bit dim, but they are sufficiently bright in daylight.
Next project: Finish the wiring for the driving lights.
David
Soon, they'll see you coming & going! Nothing like projects that make you more visible to all the brain dead cagers out there.
H2O
Quote from: h2olawyer on August 04, 2009, 05:03:03 PM
Soon, they'll see you coming & going! Nothing like projects that make you more visible to all the brain dead cagers out there.
H2O
Was also thinking of some yellow accent LED's that stick mount under the tank. Will give YJ that "yellow glow" at night.
David
Very nice looking addition.. may literally save your ass too!! Well done.
Thanks! :-)
David